Virus Corona in your wine?
Posted on: 13-03-2020 om 16:28:43
| Karina Imschoot
That the Coronavirus is not transmitted with goods and food has been explained in all media channels. This had to be repeated today, when the Ministry of Agriculture had to intervene to unblock the food goods that were stuck at the border with Slovenia, and also in terms of wine we come back to this subject .
This is done by Italian oenologists, led by Riccardo Cotarella. "With regard to the state of emergency Covid-19, Assoenologi received numerous requests, from members and other professional categories, on various issues - explains the association - including the contamination of wine, the contamination of packaging, the limiting effects of wine on the action of the virus.
In this regard, with caution, because it is a new virus, Assoenologi, after a comparison with important representatives of the medical community, points out the following: the survival of the virus in wine seems impossible because the simultaneous combination of the presence of alcohol, of a hypotonic environment and the presence of polyphenols prevents the life and multiplication of the virus itself. Contamination by packaging is non-existent, also in view of the short life of the virus and the absence of a potential "biological" living host. Moderate consumption of wine, coupled with responsible drinking, can contribute to better hygiene of the oral cavity and the pharynx, the last area where viruses nest during infections".
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